His triumph at the New Zealand Open was the sweetest success of Australian Brad Kennedy's career and it's hard to go past 2011 as the best of his 17 years as a professional.
The Queensland pro claimed the Brodie Breeze Trophy and the $AU72,000 cheque when sinking a clutch 30-foot birdie putt to beat the more-fancied Craig Parry on the first playoff hole at Clearwater.
The victory was his second on the PGA Tour of Australasia and leaps over his 2010 Western Australia Open title as his jewel in the crown amongst five others in lesser Queensland-based events.
The 37-year-old has also enjoyed a stellar rookie year on the Japan Tour, recording four top-10s on his way to 29th on the money list.
So it's fair to say that everything is well in the world as far as Kennedy is concerned.
"The last 14 months have been great for me with the win at Western Australia, in Japan and now this," he said.
Leading a tournament from start to finish, as he did by sharing the 18 and 36-hole advantage, then riding high by three strokes with a round to go, was a new experience for him.
It didn't look like he would hang onto it after 72, when it counts the most, but he didn't panic - even when dropping three shots on the front nine and being down by two to Parry and running out of holes.
"I've never gone wire to wire. Most of my good finishes have been coming from behind, so it was a little bit of a different feeling.
"Obviously the late start, to wake up at nine o'clock and trying to fill in five or six hours before I got ready wasn't easy.
"But I just kept doing what I needed to do. I stayed fairly aggressive all through the day.
"I tried to stay patient on the back nine. I knew I was around the lead. But when I saw on 14 that Craig had got to nine-under I then became the chaser and I decided to get more aggressive."
He made an outstanding par save on 17 then gave himself a great look at birdie on the 18th but left his 10-foot putt short on a perfect line.
He wasn't about to make the same mistake on the first playoff hole. With Parry going from bunker, to short of the green and 10 feet past the flag, Kennedy may have only needed to two-putt from 30 feet but slammed it instead to send the Clearwater crowd into raptures.
"The playoff was great. To play against someone like Craig and to win holing a putt for birdie was fantastic," he said.
"I backed him to hole that putt, so I knew I had to make it to win which is probably a good thing that I didn't try and two putt it.
"I felt, well, if you are going to do it, hole it on your own terms.
"To make a birdie when it counted, that's why we play golf."